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iron

1. n. a gun; a revolver. (Underworld.) Rocko never carries iron unless he’s going to use it.

2. n. computer hardware. (see also big iron.) What kind of iron are you people running over there?

See:

• all oak and iron bound
• all oak and iron bound and *sound as a barrel
• an iron fist in a velvet glove
• an iron hand in a velvet glove
• an iron man
• bad iron
• big iron
• can talk the legs off an iron pot
• cast-iron
• cast-iron stomach
• have [a few lot etc.] irons in the fire
• have too many irons in the fire
• in irons
• iron
• iron curtain
• iron hand
• iron in the fire
• iron man
• iron out
• iron out the kinks
• iron out the wrinkles (of/in something)
• iron the wrinkles out (of/in something)
• irons in the fire, too many
• pump iron
• pump some iron
• rule with a rod of iron
• rule with an iron fist
• several irons in the fire
• shooting iron
• Strike while the iron is hot
• strike whilst the iron is hot